The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-22
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT
Stephen A. Douglas is in the east on
tour of the watering places.


tour of the watering places.
General Miles gets a 81 1000 sword fol-
cleaning out Geronimo from the grateful
citizens of Arizona who realize that Their
scalps are still on their heads.
Harriet Beecher Stowe has written
letter to friend denying that she is iu
poor health. She says that she is able to
take long walk every day and feels
strong and hopeful.
Carl Schurz, while slowly recovering
from the injuries he received from a fall
some months ago, spends most of his
time in playing chess with his daughter,
reading, and writing. He is fine piano
player, and often entertains his friends
with exhibitions of his skill.
The son of Joshua r. Giddings, the old
Ohio Abolitionist, lives at jefferson, the
county seat of Ashtabula county. He
practices law and runs a farm, but he
takes very little interest in politics. The
son of Ben Wade lives in the same town.
He gives himself up to horses and lets
politics alone.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is about 40 years
of age and worth certainly $75, ,00o,
perhaps 1925, 5,OG0,0O He is tremen-
dous worker, and his friends fear he is
injuring his health by his assiduous at
tention to the details of his business. 1t
seems strange to think of a man working
himself sick when he already has q larger
income than he can by any possibility
get rid Of. Human nature is a queer
thing.
Chancellor J. II. Vincent, of Chautau-
qua, has been presented with pine
gavel made from the famous signal tree
which stood on the summit of Allatoona
mountain, to which Gen. Sherman, from
Kenesaw mountain, fifteen miles away,
signaled to Gen. Corse, over the heads
of the Confederate troops, to hold his
position until Federal re-enforcements
could arrive. The gavel came from Joseph
NJ. Brown, a son of Senator Joseph Il.
Brown.
D. o. Mills is having a $1,000 bronze
door made for the tomb that he is build
ing at Tarrytown. 1t viii be eight feet
six by four feet six. The style is in imi-
tation of the old fashioned oak doors,
with lattice work On top. The panel
ing, cross pieces and wood grooves are to
be repeated in bronze. Three companion
pieces are to be made as windows. They
are 3x4 feet and in bronze lattice work.
Miss Kate Field is the first person who
ever delivered public lecture in Alaska.
The subject of her discourse was entitled
''An Evening with Dickens most in
appropriate title, as the lecture began at
11:30 a. m. 1t took place in dance
house in Juneau, a mining camp, and the
largest town of the province. Miss Field
had large and attentive audience. Her
only remuneration was q vote of thanks,
a dinner at the hotel, and subscription
to The Free Press, the only paper in
Alaska.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland speaks
in the highest terms of her brother wife.
She thinks it wonderful that SO young
| and inexperienced a woman should dis
play such grace and dignity as the presi-
dents wife. She made the remark re-
Gently that although Frances was only
% years of age, the White House was
| never presided over by more womanly
mistress, or with sweeter grace and
dignity. Frances gets her queenly car
1ASlSSC liOIli 1icl AsOliSl, Seili Utloo SltNG-
land; ''the shapely head, the gracefully
curved neck, and the disniied bearing
are all inherited from him.
Joseph Garrison, of Harley, Idaho, has
| just been notified from Washington that
his claim for pension was allowed. He
claimed back pension since 1S4S. By
temporarily waiving d heavier claim for
entire disability resulting from wound
on the head, inflicted by bowlder thrown
from the roof of house at the storming
of the City of Mexico, he has been allowed
$12 per month, with per cent. interest
per annum, since 164S, a period of thirty
nine years. Having served in the war of
the rebellion as a lieutenant in the Second
California cavalry, he expects to get quite
an additional sum. The allowance to him
SO far will secure him over $4,000, and
when his other claims for increased pen
sion are adjudicated he expects to receive
SIS, 900 to 500, GOO more.